Improvement in devices for watering animals



YUnITED STAT-Es PATENT OFFICE.

HElTRY s, SWAYNE, or TOLEDO, OHIO. 7

IIMPRIOVEIME;NT IN MACHIN;E'S FOR FlrnlNGMQL'DINQSQ;

Specification forming part of Letters Patent 201,960, dated April 2,1878; application filed I 1 v September 11, 1877. i

To all whom it may concern ful Improvements in Machines for FillingMoldings, of which the following is a, specification: Y My inventionrelates to improvements in that class of machinery employed for fillingthe pores of wood moldings and other strips or pieces of wood, andpreparing the moldings, .&c., for polishing, varnishing, gilding, 850.

My objects are to insure a proper application or supply of the fillingmixture to strips or moldings, to prevent waste, to completely anduniformly fill'the pores of the wood, to

remove the surplus filling, generally to improve and simplify themachine, and to perform the work rapidly and automatically.

To these ends my improvements consist in certain peculiar constructionsof parts and novel combinations of devices, which will hereinafter bedescribed, and specifically designated in the claims.

In the'accompanying' drawings all my improvements are shown as embodiedin a single machine. Obviously, however, some of the parts may-be usedwithout the others, and in machines differing somewhat as to details ofconstruction from that therein shown and hereinafter described. Figure'l is a planor top View; Fig. 2, a

side elevation; Fig. 3, a vertical longitudinal jse'cti'on onthe lin'efl1 of Fig. 1; Fig.4,a vertical transverse section on the lines 2 2 and "22, Figs. 1 and? Fig.5 is a top or plan View, showing a modificationofthe fastening for the rubber holder or stock Fig. 6, a section on theline 3 3 of Fig. 5. 'Fig. 7 is a view, in perspective, of the two-partrubber-supporting ffi-ame, sh'owihg'a modification in the arrangement'ofthe holders forthe rubbers. Fig. 8

,is' an elevation ofthefilling-chamber, showing one of end doors withthe opening therein fitting around'the'inolding,the molding being shownin 'cross sectionl' The filling material, which maybe of any of theivell knowii cheap compounds suitable for-thefpurpose-such, forinstance, as a mixture of benzine, whiting, and some coloring rniattersuited to the particular wood of which themolding to be treated is"made," or plasterof-paris in the semi-fluid state-'-is placed in a Be itknownthat I, HENRY STUART SWAYNE, of Toledo, in the county of Lucas andStatel of Ohio, have invented certain new and use- -firmly secured ina-fixed position upon the front of the supporting-frame of the machine.These doors are shown as adapted to slide in and out of place verticallyin guide-grooves in the box sides. They are fitted snugly to preventleakage of the material from the box, and may readily be removed andother doors substituted,forapurpose hereinafterexplained. The doors haveopenings in them at their lower ends, shaped to correspond, or nearlyso, with the transverse outline of the molding being operated upon.These doors, especially the outer one, b, have suitable packing, such asa felt lining, secured around the edges of their openings for themoldings,.to prevent leakage. v

The openings in the detachable box ends or doors shown in the drawingscorrespond to the form of the molding representedin Figs. 4 and 8. Themolding passes through the box end I) with sufficient freedom (that is,the packing does not fit tight upon the molding) to allow thefillingsubstance immediately adhering to the molding to pass out, or thepacking around the opening of the door I) may, in some cases, bedispensed with, when in this waya sufficiently-close fit of the openingaround the molding may be attained to prevent injurious waste or toothick a coating upon the molding as it leaves the filling-box. When theform or outline transverse section of themolding or woodst-rip is variedthe doors or box ends'are changed, new doors being employed, withopenings substantially corresponding with the form of the molding.Slight changes in the forms of moldings would not render a change ofdoors necessary when 4 A gate or cook, O, in the tubular post C of thereservoir A serves to regulate the supply of the filling-mixture to thefilling-box, through which the molding passes, and to shut off thesupply when the work is to cease or the doors UNrTEn'STATns PATENTOFFICE.

ADDISON M, TELLER, MORRISON, ILLINOIS.

I-MPROIVEMENII'IIN DEVICES 'FOR-WATEIRQING ANIMALS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 201,961, dated April 2,1878; application filed October 8, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADDISON M. TELLER, of Morrison, in the county ofWhitesides and State of Illinois, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Automatic Tank-Covers, which is fully set forth in thefollowing specification and accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is aside elevation. Fig. 2 is a front elevation.

My invention relates t-o'an improved method for raising and closing thecovers of watertanks in which drinking-water is kept for the use ofanimals; and the object of my invention is to keep the water-tank coverclosed except when an animal is drinking.

The cover should be quite thick and heavy to prevent the water fromfi'eezing in winter, and should be so arranged that on lowering it willnot slam down, as that would, by alarming the animals, prevent them fromusing it. Where the cover is raised by the employment of aplatform thelatter should belong enough to permit the animal to stand upon it, andit should have so slight a depression as to be unnoticed by the animal,in order to avoid frightening it.

Referring to the drawings, Arepresents' the water-tank; b, the hmgedcover, which, in practice, is about two feet wide. Attached at each endof the cover is an iron upright, c,.in practice about nine inches high,the top of which terminates in a horizontal loop, (1, aboutthree-fourths of an inch long, through which one of the chains passes.

B represents the platform, located in front of the tank, and hinged atone end, as shown at e, to bed-pieces f, which support the platformfirmly when it is brought down by the weight of an animal.

Four posts, h, are bolted to the tank, and afford support for theoperating levers, of which there are two sets. The lower levers i,pivoted at 70 to the front posts, connect with the platform by the rodsm. These levers have friction-rollers 25 attached near the end and atthe point of contact with the upper levers. The levers n are pivoted atp to the rear posts, and connect with the cover by the chains 1", whichattach to the cover at points distant from the front edge equal to aboutone-third of its width. These levers extend back, and are weighted at s,the weights'being adjustable, as desired.

The rods, levers, and chains are so proportioned that a depression ofone and a half inch on the platform, which is effected by the weight ofthe animahwill raise the cover sufficiently.

Short chains V are attached to the front posts and to the cover, andserve to prevent the latter from going too far back. I prefer to makethese chains heavier next to the posts, in order that the additionalweight will start the cover down the moment the animal leaves theplatform.-

The operation and result of my combination may be set forth as follows:The platform is depressedwhen an animal steps upon itonly one and a halfinch. This slight depression causes the chains r to draw on the loop atof the upright attached to the cover, thus efiecting a lifting powergreater, by fifteen per cent, on a cover of the width specified thanwould be possible if the chains were attached directly to the frontedge.

When the animal is drinking the cover'is in a position nearly upright,and the stop-chains V are nearly straight, while the chains 1, beingdrawn in a straightline from the point of attachment to cover, no longerbear on the horizont'alloop of the upright 0. Now, upon the animalleaving the platform, the weight of the chains V readily starts thecover downward, and when about one-third of the way down the chains ragain bear on the loop of the upright 0, whereby the advantages are atonce effected of lowering the cover from the front edge instead of fromthe point of attachment, and also by taking up, as it were, the slack inthe chain, the rapidity of the downward movement is moderated, while atthe same time the weight of the stop-chains V diminishes as the coverlowers, until about threefourths of the way down, when their weight isentirely removed. Thus the rapidity and force with which the cover wouldotherwise fall are so far checked and controlled as to prevent itsslamming.

By this arrangement farmers may be provided with water-tanks havingcovers that act automatically, and which will remain closed

